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Gentree
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Location: France, Old Europe
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 Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:58 am Post subject: whois: connection refused ?? |
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Hi ,
yesterday I did a whois and got expected results. I pasted a copy in an email to a friend. This morning whois refuses to respond. I cut and pasted from the email to be sure it was exactly the same request. No go.
| Code: | bash-3.2#whois alternative-energycentre.co.uk
connect: Connection refused
bash-3.2#whois -v alternative-energycentre.co.uk
% This is the RIPE Whois query server #3.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
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% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html
%ERROR:103: unknown object type
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% "alternative-energycentre.co.uk" is not a known object type.
% Use "-q types" to list known object types.
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Whois works on usual .com , .org TLDs but sadly I can make no sense of the -q output and my attempt to specify the regristrar source failed the same way.
| Code: | bash-3.2#whois -s nominet.org.uk alternative-energycentre.co.uk
Warning: RIPE flags used with a traditional server.
connect: Connection refused |
Can anyone tell me why this stopped working over night and how to whois a UK registered domain.
TIA, Gentree. 
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bunder
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whois -s doesn't work for me... but whois -h does. well, it works, but nominet doesn't respond. i can pull up alternative-energycentre.co.uk without the host option though. 
not sure if that helps at all.
cheers
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Gentree
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thanks for the reply. It's back to working here now. Must have been a glitch on the server. I guess they got bombed by 5 million emails and fixed it.
thx.
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